Hi Sandro, I am from Rome as well and, as I was only 18 in 1983, I unsuccessfully tried to enlisten in order to be sent to Beiruth along with the Italian Army contingent. I was accepted in the Army one year later, and met some veterans from the Lebanon. They gave me a vivid picture (also letting me ear some recordings they had done of fights around the Italian base) of the real face of war, and that was an eyeopener for me about the lies which are common currency in media reporting, and their pivotal responsibility in spinning the idea that war is an acceptable way of dealing human conflicts. So, more than 20 years have passed and things seem to be getting even worse, with the same, unpalatable if not disgusting ipocrisy imperating in reporting from war zones. That is destroying not only the truth, but also the corrupting deeply very fabric of civilization in our own societies. The bombs might be falling over Beiruth and Haifa right now, as they did 20 years ago, but we don't seem to notice that the consistent lack of truth and hope for so many decades in a row is also raining over here and effectively destroying our humanity and civilization no matter if the bombs, for now, are not falling over Rome as well as over Berlin or Paris. The war, which we are not opposing enough, is making its casualties all over the world and not only in the Near East. Love to you all (and sorry for my English), Pietro (Rome, Italy)